During the cold war, what did soviet agents use to draw attention to defects in the american way of life?

During the cold war, soviet agents used treatment of minorities to draw attention to defects in the American way of life.

The cold war was between United States and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) and throughout the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union avoided direct military confrontation in Europe.

i see, would you mind putting it as one?